Dear Friends, Here is one of the best topic where we should debate and derive a solution in the interest of our profession. We need to introspect in ourselves and trace the reason for the downfall trend of LIS profession and professionals. Let each one of us list out the reasons and the Associations like IALA will list them out, consolidate and bring on the right platforms for corrective measures. I request all of you to respond to this mail. Thanks, Konnur. On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:42 AM, CHARU MATHUR wrote:

Respected Friends,

Greetings for the day and seasons,

Since long we have been witnessing and subsequently discussing regarding the downfall trend of LIS profession and professionals. Despite of blessed with ICT tools, LIS profession is not able to cope up with need of the users coming from the cross-sections of the society. Every next second we are getting a new e-query regarding very basic services supposed to be performed by the person in charge. What are the reasons of this situation that every new recruitee is find him in a soup and try to make every best possible effort to find out the answers of very basic nature questions? The reason may be any one of the following……………

1. LIS Curricula is not updated enough so that a student can have the latest and up-to-date knowledge of practical environment.

2. Do the learned faculties are not getting required time and proper infrastructures to keep update themselves?

3. Are the students now a days are interested only to getting a degree by using any of the means so that they can decorate their C.V.s

4. Does the new entrants feared to take challenges and not capable to convert their theoretical knowledge in practical terms?

5. Does the govt is only interested only in framing the hard core policies and setting up certain working groups to evaluate the situation?

6. What are the major roles of reputed Associations in this profession are they just limiting themselves by organizing seminars and workshops from time to time.

In the light of above queries, who is responsible for this downfall………

1. Educators

2. Students

3. Curriculum

4. Govt.

5. Associations

My dear friends, I just want to clarify myself as these questions are haunting my mind since long.

Miss Charu Mathur,

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